Disease Outbreak Strikes Thousands in Flood-Hit East India
ByBHUBANESWAR, India – The increase of waterborne diseases after heavy rains caused flooding and unsafe sanitary conditions in the eastern India has killed up to 250 people and sickened thousands, according to reports last week.
"The death toll in the three cholera-hit districts of the state [of Orissa] – Rayagada, Koraput and Kalahandi – has gone up to 140," said Dr. Usha Patnaik, the state’s director of health services, in an Associated Press report Thursday.
On Friday, however, UK.-based relief group ActionAid said it received reports from local sources that nearly 250 people had died in Koraput, Rayagada and Kalahadi, nearly double the official death toll.
Orissa health secretary Chinmoy Basu said a cholera outbreak in the state was caused by locals drinking water from stagnant pools of water and eating contaminated meat.
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